McDowell County, West Virginia, had nearly 100,000 residents in 1950. Today it has fewer than 17,000. That number — 16,878, ...

This week, "Our Common Nature" is a new podcast from WNYC. It features cellist Yo-Yo Ma and producer Ana González, as they ...

WEST COLUMBIA, W.Va. — Eric Pinson is obsessed with stacks of electric bills laid out in neat piles on his desk. He runs a ...

Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the ...

Recover Appalachia is preparing to welcome the community to a public event this month called Together We Rise: A Community ...

Vice Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) first entered popular culture selling a caricature of Appalachian culture to eager elite consumers on both the political right and left. His 2016 book, ...

Jonathan Webb used to build solar energy projects for the government. Now the 35-year-old runs one of the largest indoor farming operations globally, growing row after row after row of tomatoes. His ...

Clinically significant insomnia, elevated OSA risk, and insufficient sleep duration were markedly higher in rural Appalachian ...

Neema Avashia is all too used to the shocked reaction she gets when she tells people she’s from West Virginia. A queer woman whose parents immigrated to the US from India, Avashia doesn’t fit the ...